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Let everyone see the blood,' he said. 'Don't clean it up. That's the only way people remember.'... I could see the blood inside my head. It was with me forever, whether or not I wanted to forget.
Alice Hoffman
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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
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My theory is that everyone at one time or another has been at the fringe of society in some way: an outcast in high school, a stranger in a foreign country, the best at something, the worst at something, the one who's different. Being an outsider is the one thing we all have in common.
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It was the sort of beauty you feel so deeply it becomes contagious and somehow makes you feel beautiful too.
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She liked to disappear, even when she was in the same room as other people. It was a talent, as it was a curse.
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All the characters in my books are imagined, but all have a bit of who I am in them - much like the characters in your dreams are all formed by who you are
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He wanted pain, I saw that in him, and what a man wants he will often manage to find.
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I don't think I make much of a distinction between the 'real' and the 'fantastic.' They both seem to be threads in the same cloth as far as I'm concerned.
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I saw the end of his life right there in that single moment. His pride, his decency, his secrets, his death.
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That is the joy of reading fiction: when all is said and done, the novel belongs to the reader and his or her imagination.
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I wasn't good company, that was true, and people avoided me, but that was all right. I was too busy dreaming.
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The frightened walk away when love is difficult. I know that now. You have to be willing to give everything away. You have to be willing to end up with nothing. Only then will your heart be whole.
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Are people drawn to each other because of the stories they carry inside?
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I wonder how a lioness will manage in a dovecote. Can you put away your teeth and claws?
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Even in times when it's difficult to figure out, how do you go forward, art - and books - always help
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Once you know some things, you can't unknow them. It's a burden that can never be given away.
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When I walk, I walk with you. Where I go, you're with me always.
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I think secrets often come out. I spoke to a friend who is a therapist and I asked her if there were people who came to her and admitted to doing horrible things and she said, 'More than you know.'.
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Remember what I've told you. Remember me.
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I have crossed over to a place where I never thought I’d be. I am someone I would have never imagined. A secret. A dream. I am this, body and soul. Burn me. Drown me. Tell me lies. I will still be who I am.
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I read The Group by Mary McCarthy. It had tons of sex in it, or so I thought at the time.
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Unrequited love is so boring. Weeping under a blue-black sky is for suckers or maniacs.
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